An afterword should leave the skin quickly, like an alcohol rub. Here is an example, from Emily Tennyson’s grandmother, her complete diary entry for the day of her wedding, May 20, 1765:
Finished Antigone, married Bishop.
Anne Carson, “Short Talk on Afterwords”
“Who are you that the whole world’s song
Is shaken out beneath your feet
Leaving you comfortless,
Who, that, as wheat
Is garnered, gather in
The blades of man’s sin
And bear that sheaf?
Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless!”
Ezra Pound | “To Our Lady of Vicarious Atonement”
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